Reimagining Security Communities

Chapter 1: Regional Security Community.- Chapter 2: Approaches to Regional Security Analysis.- Chapter 3: Regional Security Community Arrangement in Africa.- Chapter 4:  African Peace and Security Architecture: Fit for Purpose?.- Chapter 5: Evolution of the African Standby Force.- Chapter 6: African Union-led Peace Support Operations.- Chapter 7: From Security Communities to Security Systems.- Chapter 8: Partnership in Peace Support Operations.- Chapter 9: Building Actors' Relationship through Concentric Rims.- Chapter 10: A Synchronic Dialogue and the Emerging Concept of Legal Security in Africa.- Chapter 11: How to Build Maritime Human Security Systems .- Chapter 12: Dominatarianism and Security Community Systems.

Francis Onditi heads the School of International Relations and Diplomacy, Riara University, Kenya. He is a Distinguished Author and Research Professor at the Institute of Intelligent Systems, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is the 2019 recipient of the AISA Fellowship awarded by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), South Africa, for his tenacious research and scholarly work on 'positioning African States in the Dynamic Global System .' Dr. Onditi is a widely published pan-African researcher specializing in the geography of African conflict and institutional evolutionary theory. He has published numerous research papers in peer reviewed journals, contributed several papers to edited books and authored/co-edited 3 books.

Gilad Ben-Nun is a Senior Lecturer at Leipzig University's Research Centre Global Dynamics, Germany, as well as a Senior scholar at the Leibniz Institute GWZO, where he teaches Global Studies and the History of International Law. A former EU - Marie Curie Individual fellow at Verona University's law faculty, and a former Ford Foundation Fellow at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) in Geneva, he currently leads Leipzig University's engagement in the EU-funded PREVEX Consortium studying comparatively Islamic Extremism in the Balkans and North Africa. In 2020, he was awarded the visiting professorship for Israel Studies at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, in association with the American University in Washington DC. In 2021 he was awarded the Alfred Grosser Chair at the French National University for Political Sciences - 'Science Po'.

Edmond M. Were is an Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies currently in Kisii University, Kenya. He has previously taught in Universities in Kenya and Rwanda where he has risen in the ranks of the academia including Moi University, Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology and Kigali Institute of

"The book provides helpful insights into how to better organise Africa-led PSOS on the continent. If well executed, and with proper political support and commitment, the interagency approach and multidimensional peace operations ... which are endorsed in the book - are commendable and could help change the security landscape in Africa. ... Students, policy-makers, civil society, and other actors interested in African security issues and regional governance will find some of the ideas in the book valuable." (Christopher Changwe Nshimbi, Yearbook on the African Union, Vol. 2, 2021)